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Posted By USAPinoy on October 16, 2010

Why are they complaining ? It’s not our fault that the USA is having a shortage on nurses.

We are thankful that our Filipino nurses are hired in the US but foreigners should underestimate the capability of our nurses. Do they think Filipino nurses are not qualified to work in the USA? Maybe they think they are just graduates of two year course? Our Filipino nurses are graduates of real nursing schools and not from diploma millers. They’ve graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Nursing and passed the Nursing board exams. Before they are even hired to work in the USA, they have to take exams, like the NCLEX and the CGFNS. Plus the IELTS. Bah, it’s not easy to pass those exams.

With regards to training, our Filipino nurses have a lot of extensive trainings , they go through affiliation and internship, they are trained in hospitals, they go to health centers, to far-flung areas to help care the sick, even to mental institutions to have a hands-on experience. They do not just stay in air-conditioned rooms and study their books and their theories, they go out there in the real world. And many long years of employment are required before one is hired to work in the USA, five to eight years of work experience. This is America, they will not hire our nurses if they’re just fresh graduates or if they’re inexperienced so they should not doubt our nurses’ ability to give quality care to the sick.

And they’re commenting on the language barrier? Filipinos may have an accent but we do understand spoken and written English perfectly, just give them a little time to adjust and they’ll be able to talk with a twang  just like Americans do.

Just wondering why they didn’t interview the patients of these Filipino nurses? Why just focus on the “importation” of Filipino nurses, why not try understanding too the benefits. I think the “end ” justifies the means.

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Posted By USAPinoy on October 9, 2010

One time I had this conversation with my coworker Gracie. She was griping about how she had a disagreement with her elder sister when she called her in our beloved Philippines, my Philippines. She was mad at how her sister was egging her about sending her 100 dollars, anyway, as her Ate said, “it’s just 100 dollars, Grace, ano ba naman yon dyan ?”. Grace was mad that they do not realize how a hundred bucks meant to her considering that she is a single mom and nobody helps support her three-year old daughter and she has a lot of bills to pay too.

As she kept ranting about this, I realized this, people from the Philippines do not actually know what 100 dollars meant to the Filipino dollar earners in the US. I mean,  I,  for one thought it doesn’t mean a lot but after arriving in the USA, my whole understanding of the value of the dollar changed. It’s like this,  if you will compare 1 peso versus 1 dollar, without using the exchange rate yung simpleng comparison lang,  the one peso in the Philippines cannot buy a liquid hand soap, but here in the USA, with one dollar you can – meaning our 1 dollar here is valuable. Our 100 dollar here can go a long way as compared to the Philippines 100 pesos. So folks, hindi sya , ” one hundred dollars lang “. Hindi po siya one hundred dollar lang dahil in truth, madami na po kaming mabibili dito nyan kesa ipadala sa mga nanghihingi na ipang iinom lang dahil birthday nila.

To illustrate further, a 100 dollar can already buy or pay for :

• 10 pieces of Levi’s T-shirts at 10 dollars a piece
• or 10 boxes of Mangoes at 8.99 a box ( may sukli pa yan )
• or 10 or more different kinds of meat packages ( pwera kung tri-tip or mga prime steaks ha ? )
• or 2 months of my electric bill at $45.00 a month
• or 1 month of Cable bill at $93.00
• or 100 items from the Dollar store

and the list is endless..

So it is not just 100 dollars folks..  Before you go asking for dollars from your relatives here, try thinking if the person can manage shelling out 100 bucks, because she may also need it herself. Or better yet, ask yourself first because if you can survive not asking help from others, why bother? Kung latest model lang ng cellphone or pang bili ng bagong damit, baka naman pwedeng ipostpone mo yan. Maybe the person may not send you what you are asking for anyway, and baka mag iba pa tingin nya sayo di ba? Kung emergency okay lang. The most hurting thing for us here who send dollars to our relatives is knowing you send somebody your hard-earned money and he just spends it on a drinking spree, or on a shopping spree and they go bragging to people that they have money but it’s money that they did not work for. Ang di nila alam, yung magulang or kapatid nila dito, pinaghirapan kitain yung 100 dollars na pinadala sa kanila.

Kakaawa nga ang iba dito eh, lalo na matatanda. They should be retired themselves but no, you will see them taking care of  seniors at care homes .  Or you see them babysitting, or standing whole day folding clothes in the store , or making “kalkal in the basura”  for soda cans and plastic water bottles.  Then sometimes the people they send money to would tell them, “one hundred dollars lang naman yon, para yon lang parang ang laki na nang pinadala mo. Kulang pa nga eh. ” That hurts huh? Imagine if one has ten children or ten siblings back in the Philippines, and she has to give 100 dollars to each one of them, and she’s not really earning that much, you think that is easy on that person to hand out 100$ or worst,  more than $100? Mahirap po kitain ang dolyar dito. Kala nyo lang hindi, pero that is the truth and nothing but the truth.

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Posted By USAPinoy on October 3, 2010

I was trying to merge on the freeway on my way home today but there was a car who’s got the right of way ..I started to brake a bit but the driver signalled at me to go first and saw him slow down just for me…

One time at the tollgate someone paid for our toll..

We were shopping at Bed, Bath and Beyond, we were waiting for our turn to pay when this lady ahead of us gave us coupons as she said we will save a lot from the BBB coupons and we did..

How heartwarming, acts of kindness from a stranger.. I feel my eyes well up everytime I remember these things.. I feel very touched.. It’s great to live in America where people are not afraid to be kind and it’s great to see God’s love at work, even in the simplest of things…

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